Improved milking-apparattts



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EUGENE SPEDDEN, 0F' ASTORIA., OREGON.

Letters Patent No. 95,947, dated October 19, 1869.

IMPROVE!) MILKING-APPARATUS. v

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part df the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE SPEDDEN, ofAstoria, in the county of Glatsop, and State of Oregon, have invented a new and improved Milking-Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The drawing represents an elevation of my improved apparatus partly broken out.

A is a milk-pail, either clo'sely covered, or open, as may be preferred. Into this pail, from the funnel C, passes the flexible tube B. This tub'e is attached4 to the pail at F, by a clamp or other device, and to the funnel at O, so that it may be at any time easily detached.

E are handles or hooks, secured to the funnel, and which spring suffciently'to allow the small metallic lings a to be readily drawnout of or into said handles or hooks.

v In these metallic rings are the elastic rings or wristlets D, through which the hands `of the milker are passed to the wrists, and by these wiistlets the funnel is held up to the udders-of the cow, and at the same time both hands are left entirely free forthe operation of milking, which is done into the funnel, the milk dle, the wristlet remaining on the wrist, to be taken ofi' at pleasure or readjusted to the handle.

By the means ordinarily employed for milking, Iif bothhands are used, the pail has to be under the cow, at some distance from the teats, and consequently much care is required to prevent a waste of the milk,

and at the same time being so near the heels of the cow, the pail is liable to be upset, or to have dirt thrown into itby her moving or kicking.

' With my device"no milk can be 10st,"nor candir't be thrown into it, for the reason that the funnel is held quite up to the teats, and the moving or kicking of the cow cannot interfere with the pail, as it is set' at a safe distance from her.

"If the common milkingcup is used, time is necessarily taken up in emptying it into the pail, and as one hand has to be employed to hold it, but one can be used in milking.

The pail, with a closed top, may serve for a stool for the milker, and thus save the use of a separate stool, as now commonly used. A g

The elastic wrstlets may be rings, as shown inthe drawing, or straps buckled, or'otherwise secured on the wrists.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- V 1. The combination of the pail, tube, funnel, and elastic wristlets D, substantially as specied.

2. The elastic wristlets D, ring a, and hooks E, in combination with the funnel C, when said parts are constructed and arranged-to operate as shown and described.

EUGENE SPEDDEN.

Witnesses H. B. PARKER, O.. L. PARKER.l 

